I bet the road crew didn't feed the tiger in the pit beneath those plates too. Bring chickens?

Ooh, rusty steel plates with exposed edges.

When they're wet.. WOOOOOOOOOOooooooo....

Got all your shots up to date?

Variable road conditions are exactly why I won't run on anything skinnier than 28C.

How heavy can they be? Drag one all the way over the hole.

Oh dude, they weigh hundreds of pounds. These plates are not something you just slide around.

Around here, they usually use 3/4 or 1 inch plates. 1" thick steel plate weighs abour 40 lbs a square foot. (that's about 200 kg/m^2, for the metric folk).

I'd say they were thinking, "So we watch the traffic cameras, and when some bicyclist drops the front wheel all the way to the axle, we'll put it up on YouTube. Agreed?"

Too heavy to drag. Just kick it really hard.

When I first read the subject line, my mind went somewhere completely different.

I thought it was 101 ways to kill a bicyclist, and you were getting the ball rolling.

My contributions woulda been:
- High powered rifle
- Guy with a shopping cart
- Cop with a Taser
- Piano wire strung between trees along a bike trail

Thanks much -- I don't often have to head that way, but now I KNOW I'll avoid it.

They fixed it, but then installed a new and bigger hole a block earlier :p

A local guy here was riding at night after a thunderstorm and was clotheslined by a downed cable wire. He was happy it wasn't a power line.

:bang:

in the United States crashing cyclists would sue them for multi million $$, in the European Union they would close the cycle path and make an additional 10 km detour, in Switzerland they would tell you to be self responsible (i.e. in case of accident insurances refuse to pay), and in the ex Soviet Union they would have been awarded the title "hero of labour"